What Can You Learn From Wacky Products?

I have been invited by Think Outside the Circle to become a fellow blogger on InventorSpot.com. So let me introduce myself. I am your new “hope to be your favorite” blogger Amused and Bemused. I will be dropping in here whenever the whim hits me to share my latest amusing, bemusing and wonderful discoveries with you.

With my joining the site, we are going to start building a Wacky Products section to our site later this week. If you have any recommendations, please post them in the comments here.

I just can’t believe some of the stuff that people come up with.

I am even more amazed by the stuff that people actually buy. But it’s important to study them if you are out there trying to figure out if your idea can make you money. I think you’ll learn that people love the weirdest things…perhaps the next weird thing they love will be your invention.

Well, Gizmodo features a wacky hat today. They found it at Jlist.com (warning: X-Rated site). I found the hat at another blog (but now can't find my notes).

What was really disturbing was that I had decided last night that I was going to feature the scat hat as my first posting this morning. Then, I saw it on Gizomodo. How did they find out about my idea?!

Instead of feeling furious that they took my idea and scrambling for a new idea for my posting today, I decided to do them one better….so more hats. Hah!

Here are some of the hats that some creative inventor came up with and people are buying.